Word: brawling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...when they fall to fisticuffs, as inevitably they must (in movies like this it is only by fighting that men can become friends), the whole picture begins to come apart. The brawny Nolte looks as if he could blow the willowy Murphy away with one punch. But the brawl ends in an obviously fixed draw, and a suspicion that everything else is equally rigged begins to nag. The uncaring mind begins to wander questioningly toward many a dubious plot point. Where did the bad guys get hold of a city bus for a getaway? And what good do they think...
...developing brawl could begin this week in the lameduck session of Congress. Either house can indefinitely delay the deployment of the missile by refusing to approve funds for the Dense Pack basing plan. A move in the House last July to cancel MX production failed to pass by a mere three votes. A similar measure in the Senate lost by just four. The Administration is expected to wage an all-out fight to gain funding in the lameduck session since the new House, with 26 more Democrats than the present body, is expected to be even less receptive...
...Green Berets different?" piped up former Sergeant Mark Atchison. Tougher? Smarter? No. "We believed it. We tried to win their hearts and minds. We never called 'em 'gooks.' " An instant later at the bar an argument about a shoulder patch turned into an abortive brawl. "A lot of people here," suggested Russ Lindley, a long-haired ex-paratrooper, "are letting it out for the first time...
Others dismissed problems in the past, although they praised the new precautions. Robert C. Cormack '86, also a Pennypacker resident, said. "It [the brawl] was just a one-time occurrence. Anything like it won't happen again...
...just football, either. Whenever the Harvard hockey team takes the same ice as the Bruins, bad times are guaranteed, especially when ECAC Dirty Player of the Year Darrell Petit is taking a shift. Last year's game at Bright Center was delayed for close to 15 minutes when a brawl broke out in front of the Harvard bench just before the close of the first period...